Around 24-28 weeks gestation, most practitioners will order a blood glucose test to see if the pregnant patient has gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is a high blood sugar condition that 2-5 percent of pregnant women develop during pregnancy.
Because this condition rarely causes any visible symptoms, performing a glucose test is the only way to find out if a patient has it. If a patient tests positive for this screening, a glucose tolerance test (GTT) is needed, a GTT is a longer more definitive test.
What happens once diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes? There are many different plans that Dr. Leveno could set a patient on depending on how high the glucose levels were on the glucose tolerance test.
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